Word: lurks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the element of danger present in visiting the Zone is a disappointment. A few dangerous-looking types lurk in corners. Several drunks stagger out of bars and clumsily attempt to hurl punches at each other. Open-eyed pimps stand on the corner watching their prostitues...
...just as important, he had the proper training facilities. There was a swimming pool his father could throw him into. Instead of having his parents tell him to go outside and play in the streets where drugs and other troubles lurk, he had a swimming pool in which to train...
...Zhao must proceed cautiously; conservative forces lurk behind the scenes, ready to criticize any failing innovations. While most hardliners were booted out of the Central Committee in this Congress, there are three new leaders in the party's inner circle who are steeped in Soviet training and poised to slow the reforms. Based on the negative effects capitalist initiatives have had on China recently, conservatives already have sufficient gripes...
...Harvard, this is a near-must-win game (1 p.m. kickoff, WHRB 95.3 FM, PBS). The Crimson is currently tied with Yale atop the Anceint Eight at 4-1. Three teams, Princeton, Brown and Cornell, lurk a game back...
...frustrations of finding out what's available--and with screwing up the courage to walk into some professor's office and ask the basic questions academics entered university life, at least in part, to answer. It should be easier for students to find the sources of information that now lurk behind platoons of department secretaries, deputy assistant head tutors and signs listing each professor's four weekly office hours...